Homer then leaves on an odyssey through a deserted and chilly Springfield, with Moe inadvertently compounding his sadness by being preoccupied with karaoke when Homer shows up to try and talk to him, and to add insult to injury, Homer's car gets towed with his cell phone frozen inside it. - I Won't Be Home for Christmas (The Simpsons)

From there, he begins an odyssey taking him back to Indiana, then visiting his ex-wife in st Louis. - Orfeo (novel)

At the end of this odyssey Steiner dies in Germany while he visits his terminally ill wife for the last time. - Flotsam (novel)

Their Thelma & Louise cross-country adventure is a mix of hilarious joy ride and an empowering personal odyssey that not only tests their friendship for the first time but also lands the girls in jail. - Dear Eleanor

Amidst nonstop head-butting (attributed to Alza's spoiled arrogance and Lincoln's general grumpiness), the mismatched pair sets out on a three-day odyssey of misadventures along the highways and byways of America, where they encounter rat-infested motels, convenience store holdups, rural rabbit stalkers, and a star struck couple from the local trailer park. - Pieces of Easter

They carry out a heist, which involves stealing $3 million which attracts the attention of many psychotics, who chase them through a blood spattered odyssey into the Melbourne underground. - Bloodlust (1992 film)

This is the start of a year-long odyssey that takes him halfway around the world: from a refugee camp in Austria to the streets of New York and the Utah desert. - Footsteps in the Sand (film)

Shortly summed up as an absurdist odyssey through downtown Manhattan with a sweet old serial killer, a student rock-music critic, and international bohemians. - The Golden Boat

After their fight, Dana rips down all the odyssey pictures from the wall. - Blue Crush 2

After a lengthy, truth-seeking odyssey fraught with tragedy and sacrifice, Ahbleza assumes his rightful place as spiritual leader of his tribe. - The Mystic Warrior

The evening's odyssey includes a bar fight, a house party, a punk-rock circus, a spontaneous burglary, a home Casper did not know he had, and a cast of strange characters, unexpected allies and disappointing friends. - Stuck Between Stations

On the morning of his thirty seventh birthday Michael Brown (Adam Scott) receives a telephone call from his estranged brother Tobey (Joel Bissonnette), which sends the two off on a day-long odyssey on an old BMW across a wild and weird Los Angeles in search of Tobey’s “reason for living. - Passenger Side

Through centuries, the odyssey reveals a challenging cohabitation with other species and soon a violent confrontation with white Caucasian newcomers. - Noir austral

What seems like a fairly straightforward expedition becomes a galactic odyssey when an artifact never seen before is uncovered. - Across a Billion Years

Unable (and reluctant) to return to Seoul, he finds himself in the company of some very unusual locals and, subject to the rigid rules of Korean drinking culture, on an increasingly strange odyssey nursing a never-ending hangover. - Daytime Drinking

Ajileo loses his innocence as he discovers that his own odyssey has just begun. - The Mexican Dream

At first she is stonewalled, then told the evidence was destroyed, but she refuses to give up, and she and Abra embark on an odyssey to recover any evidence that might still be stored away somewhere. - Conviction (2010 film)

Their initial two week journey turns into a year long odyssey of heartbreak and hope as the villagers turn against them when donated tsunami relief money does not materialize. - The Third Wave (2007 film)

Dashavatar is an odyssey through time, showing the values of the old world matching the sensibilities of the modern one. - Dashavatar (film)

Reluctantly, Dawg sets out on his odyssey which takes him, and the lawyer, to venues throughout California. - Dawg (film)

The trio's tranquil existence dissolves the following Christmas, and Rachel and Lloyd find themselves on a cross-country odyssey that takes them through numerous towns named Springfield, dogged by disaster. - Reckless (1995 film)

His odyssey finally brings him to New York City, where at first he struggles to find community and make a new home for himself, like so many before him. - Sugar (2008 film)

The RV trip to the West Coast turns into an odyssey with a dizzying array of psychological shipwrecks and unintended detours. - California Dreaming (2007 film)

After an odyssey through the wilderness, they reach Joachim's plantation. - Homo Faber (novel)

The trip becomes something of an odyssey for the boy. - Sounder (film)

This reaction at first angers him, but in the end he joins army engineer Ceccarelli and sergeant Fornaciari in discarding their uniforms for civilian clothes and heading southwards for a veritable odyssey along the Italian "boot", cut in two by German and Allied occupation and wracked by partisan warfare, bloody reprisals, German press-ganging and other perils. - Everybody Go Home

So she and her students, using the treasured books Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl and Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Sarajevo as their guides, undertook a life-changing, eye-opening, spirit-raising odyssey against intolerance and misunderstanding. - The Freedom Writers Diary

Intercut with Heisler's escape odyssey are some scenes involving some of his friends who are trying to locate and help him. - The Seventh Cross (film)

In the final scenes, their spiritual odyssey of transmogrification is recounted. - The Revolt of Islam

De Soya, unable to determine to which of the hundreds of planets crossed by River Tethys Aenea has fled, begins an odyssey of continuous deaths and resurrections through all known planet systems in order to find her. - Endymion (Simmons novel)

and engage on a bloody odyssey across the strange worlds of the galaxy to exact revenge onUB. - Loaded (video game)

The odyssey of a Kurdish man (Beko) in search of his brother, who has fled to avoid being drafted into the Turkish Armed Forces. - Klamek ji bo Beko

His death, combined with the stress of her career leads Harlow on an odyssey of failed relationships and alcoholism, culminating in her death of kidney failure at the age of twenty-six. - Harlow (Paramount film)

It is nine o'clock in the morning, and Demba embarks on his odyssey by furtively wandering around the streets of Vienna while hiding his handcuffed hands under his overcoat. - From Nine to Nine

His life thereafter is an odyssey through the "partisanka", the motley partisan movement, which includes Russians, Jews, Lithuanians and Poles. - If Not Now, When? (novel)

Together, the two men embark on a several-day-long odyssey through the North of Italy—by train and on foot—until they finally, in the midst of a snowbound forest, reach the Yugoslav border. - Cause for Alarm (novel)

The plot is further complicated when information from Bisesa's odyssey suggests that what is happening to the sun is not simply a random happening in nature, but is rather the result of events set in motion by an alien intelligence over three millennia ago. - Sunstorm (novel)

Cosmopolis is the story of Eric Packer, a 28-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager who makes an odyssey across midtown Manhattan in order to get a haircut. - Cosmopolis (novel)

Johnny immediately seduces Sophie, but soon tires of her and embarks on an extended latter-day odyssey among the destitute and despairing of the United Kingdom's capital city. - Naked (1993 film)

The two commence an odyssey across the United States, traveling from hotel to motel. - Lolita (1962 film)

Ellen's odyssey (almost in a picaresque vein) starts the night Ellen's father mistakes her for her mother. - Ellen Foster

His quest to rescue her takes him on an odyssey through this sleazy adult subculture. - Hardcore (1979 film)

His odyssey begins with a long voyage on a donkey and on foot through the impoverished towns and villages on the way to Constantinople. - America America

Meanwhile, Scott goes through the odyssey of navigating his basement, which for him at his current size is a cavernous, inhospitable world. - The Incredible Shrinking Man

Example sentences for "odyssey" in interesting articles

Rocket science may be no match for cricket when it comes to listing some of India's favourite things, but the frugality of its space odyssey could be a lesson to the world.The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) spent just over Rs 380 crore (about half the price of a Jumbo Jet) on Chandrayaan-1, with 1,000 scientists toiling over it for three years. - How India flew to the moon economy class

The LSD turned the trip into an odyssey of spectral laughing faces in the sky and dark, miasmic whirlpools underfoot. - Lost in the Meritocracy (2005)

Michael Huchko, an IBM retiree, who also took photographs for the Windsor Muster, the town’s fife-and-drum corps, had little recollection of what the girls whom he had hired looked like, but he did remember how much he had paid for them ($175 for an hour of “half and half”—intercourse plus oral—with one; $250 for an hour of the same with two).On Wednesday, June 6, Caroline, the 4-H girl, chronicled the highlights of her odyssey with Paris. - Sex Trafficking of Americans: The Girls Next Door

And I am the author of the newly released book Lyme Madness: Rescuing My Son Down the Rabbit Hole of Chronic Lyme Disease.
We entered ‘Lymeland’ in October of 2012, when we were forced to go on a long, terrifying and overwhelming medical odyssey starting with a grueling 18-month journey into the offices of 20 medical specialists in NYC, each of whom missed my son’s diagnosis altogether. - Lyme Is 'All in Your Head' – A Wake-Up Call to Mental Health Professionals

Meaning of "odyssey" in English

a long wandering and eventful journey

a Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the journey of Odysseus after the fall of Troy

Meaning of "odyssey" in Hindi

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